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The Polio Eradication and Endgame Strategic Plan 2013–2018 (Endgame Plan), developed in 2013, lays out an updated vision for the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI). This Annual Report looks back on the progress achieved against the Endgame ...

In 2012, the World Health Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) declared completion of polio eradication a programmatic emergency. Polio cases are detected through surveillance of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) cases and subsequent testing o...

World Health Organization, Global Polio Eradication Initiative.. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.. Rotary International.. UNICEF. World Health Organization, Dept. of Vaccines and Other Biologicals..

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May 2004

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The Global Polio Eradication Initiative achieved strong progress in 2003. By the end of 2003, only 6 countries in the world were still polio-endemic, the lowest number ever: Nigeria, India, Pakistan, Niger, Afghanistan and Egypt. : WHO/Polio/04.02

In 1988, the World Health Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) resolved to interrupt wild poliovirus (WPV) transmission worldwide, and in 2012, the World Health Assembly declared the completion of global polio eradication a programmatic em...